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The Reading Life: When and why to ditch a book

When I was a kid- not just a little kid, but all through school, and probably all through college- I completed every book that I started....

Some good DNFs

When I was young, I would never put a book down without finishing it. I once spent four months plowing through Martin Chuzzlewit when I...

Alphabet Reading Challenge: s, t, u, w

Strong, Anthony M- The Haunting of Willow House Tarkington, Booth- The Magnificent Ambersons Unsworth, Emma Jane- Grown Ups Walker,...

Goodreads list challenge: August and September

Yang, Susie- White Ivy Mascarenhas, Kate- The Psychology of Time Travel McDermid, Val- Northanger Abbey Moreno-Garcia, Silvia- Velvet Was...

The six things I learned from my alphabet reading challenge

Last December, I wanted to try something new with my reading and set up some challenges for the new year. I think that this is by far...

A DNF list for the winter. Just couldn't do it.

Megan Hunter- The Harpy Kevin Wilson- The Family Fang David Leavitt- Shelter in Place Karen Swan- The Paris Secret G. M. Malliet - Wicked...

DNF early fall: some pretty good books that I just could not get through

Wow, No Thank You, Samantha Irby Somewhere in the Dark, R. J. Jacobs The 2084 Report, James Laurence Powell To Sleep in a Sea of Stars,...